Judith Durham Quotes

I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

We did everything we could to hold Pantera together and fought for it until the very end, and now that it's gone we're 100% focused on Damageplan.

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.

And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.

I think, at the end of the day, that was really what the reward for production is for me, is being allowed to be a part of somebody else's musical vision for a while. Like Gwar. I got to do a Gwar record, right? That was great.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.

2112' basically set the course for my musical career and how I approached Dream Theater.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.